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LOOP SURFAGBD FABRIC ,AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME. No. 379,402. Patented Mar. 13, 1888.

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THOMAS LAMB AND JOSEPH D. MORLEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA.

LOOP-SURFACED FABRIC AND METHOD OF MAKlNG THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,402, dated March 13, 1888.

Application filed March 15, 1886. Serial No. 195,215. (No model.)

To (6 whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS LAMB and JOSEPH D. MORLEY, both citizens of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Puffed Surfaces for Garments, Fabrics, &c., which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a face view of a puffed surface embodying our invention. Fig. 2 represents another view of the same on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of one of the loops of the puffed surface. Figs. 4 and 5 represent top or plan views of portions of a sewing-machine that may be employed to form the loops. Figs. 6 and 7 represent side elevations, respectively, of Figs. 5 and 6.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Our invention consists of a puffed surface which is produced by loops fastened by chain, lock,or other stitches formed of yarn or thread continuous of that of which the loops are produced. A surface thus constructed will be found serviceable for lining or facing stockings, leggins, gloves, and other garments, pieces of fabric, &c., for increasing the warmth and weight thereof, or serving as trimming, ornamentation, 85c.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a part of a garment or piece of fabric having a puffed surface produced in accordance with ourinvention. Thepnffs which compose said surface are formed of loops which project or stand out from the fabric, 8tc., and are con nected at their inner ends with the latter. XVe employ any desired sewingmachine and provide the same with a loop-forming device, which in the present case occupies a position on the top of the cloth-plate, and consists of a hook-shaped piece, 13, which slides in opposite directions on said plate in aline at a right angle to the direction of the feed, and receives its motions froma cam an dspring on the machine, the mechanism employed, how've'nforming no part of the present invention, it being illustrated at this time to show how the loops jiieeeaB diilged down to the fabric, fgrnling a loop, is retained on the hook.

are produced. When the machine is in operais caught in the fabric on the cloth-plate and the needle rises as usual in sewing-machines. The piece B now advances against the yarn between the'needle and the garment or fabric and passes under and beyond the point of the needle and the needle descends, whereby the yarn or thread is turned over the hook of the The yarn or thread is then formed into'a stitch, D,on the fabric, thus sewing theloop to the fabric. The needlethen rises (see Fig. 7) and the fabricis advanced,theloop following the fabric, after which the piece B returns to its first position, carrying with it the loop as formed, and then bearing against the yarn in a direction the reverse to that just above stated, (see Fig. 6,) whereby when the needle descends another loop is formed on the hook andnthe stitch j at the base produced, said stitch sewing the second loop tothe fabric, and thus further loops and stitches may be made, the loops being stripped from the end of the hook by the advance of the fabric.

It will be seen that a garment or fabric may be readily lined, faced, or covered with puffs, so that its warmth or weight is increased or an ornamental appearance presented, and said puffs being sewed to the fabric by yarn or thread of which the loops and stitches are con tinuous are prevented from becoming undone .or disconnecting from the fabric, it being evident that as the loops and stitches are formed by continuous operation and by mechanical means the work will be uniform, and owing to the rapidity with which it is accomplished is inexpensive, and is moreover of a superior nature.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The methodof forming a pufied surface on a fabric by means of projecting loops, said 9 method consisting in first securing the thread of which the puffed surface is to be composed to the fabric, then forming a loop of the said thread, as set forth, then passing the unfast ened end of the thread through the fabric, leav- I ing the outer end of the loop free, and formends of said loops, said stitches and loops be- IO Tug a bindingstitoh on the fabric at the inner ing adjacentand formed ofaeontinuous thread,

end of the loop, and then forming successively all substantially as described.

loops and bindin --stitches as before, in adjacent rows, the st i ches and loops being ofone EH08 LAMB continuous thread, substantially as described. MORLEY 2. A fabric having a puffed surface consisti \Vitnesses:

ing of rows of projecting loops, with free outer J OHN WIEDERsHEIM,

ends and rows of binding-stitches at the inner A. P. GRANT. 

